From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Find bindings for all modes Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:46:33 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20141030014633.GH7374@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <87a94fince.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414633619 30538 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2014 01:46:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:46:59 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 02:46:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjepC-0008Ps-Eg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:46:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjepC-00071t-1b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55019) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjeox-0006zP-I5 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:46:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjeot-0004Qy-EO for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:46:39 -0400 Original-Received: from 191-232-4-64.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:56601 helo=tj49.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjeot-0004Qg-69 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:46:35 -0400 Original-Received: by tj49.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id A57ED51C9147; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:46:33 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100654 Archived-At: * John Mastro [141029 15:08]: > Robert Thorpe wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand John Mastro & Tim Johnson are trying to > > achieve here. However, there are a few keys that are much less trouble > > to use: > > Fair warning - this will probably be of interest to approximately noone, > but I'll share my thinking anyway :) > > My goal is to have a general-purpose prefix key on the right hand side > of the keyboard, to complement C-c. C-c ; is available But, see https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html and the following statement there : "Sequences consisting of C-c followed by {, }, <, >, : or ; are also reserved for major modes." But that would work really well for me ... Other comments are welcome. -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com